Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1868 — A Queer Hymn Book. [ARTICLE]

A Queer Hymn Book.

A good joke is told of of a preacher in Nebraska, who had dined with a friend just before afternoon services. As it happened, tliia friend oeeasiouly luxuriated in a. smile of the ardent, and sometime* carried a morocco covered flask in his overcoat pocket. By mistake the minister took the friend’s overcoat for his own on hi* departure, and, walking into the pulpit, began the exercises without doffing the garment, it being - rather chilly in the room. Looking very ministerially over his congregation * from behind hi* spectacles, he began drawing front his pocket, as no supposed,- hit hymn book, with the introductory remarks that the congregation would sing from a particular pagl which he had selected beforehand. The minister held the supposed book up in full sight of the oougre. gation, and attempted to opm it sideways, but it was Ao go. * The 'situation was realized in a moment, but, alas! top late. ; His reverence was dumbfounded, the audience giggled, and the whole scene was made ludicrouab; l-W low in the back part of the earnera* gation, not altogether too aooer,who drawled out: “Say, Mister, kin we alt (Mag jiue in that ar’ hymn?” —Du Chaillu describes the do*tumea of the in the following manner? . •> R> 'jr “The Kingwbma nothing else ; hisflrst minister W<>s % shirt else j his secsßd J nect-ue—and eiae^hfJfcitf w»s. adorned wispw. iM./jPwidfotftring else; butjhe tjuec* wmi Oft fasmon by wearing an tMnwMpm and nothing else.” , r- Couldn't *roofTit in-Ja after eototy alft* white',

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